tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post5794319053837931903..comments2017-02-12T10:15:09.004-06:00Comments on Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues: "Mad Max": The New Dark Ages Are HereManifesto Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-514227708884963932015-06-04T15:11:13.472-05:002015-06-04T15:11:13.472-05:00re:
&gt;&gt;I did think the 1981 film &quot;The Ro...re:<br />&gt;&gt;I did think the 1981 film &quot;The Road Warrior&quot; was a great film<br /><br />I agree. It was an amazing action film and an astonishing technical accomplishment. Mind-blowing stunts, done in an era before CGI effects.<br />I&#39;m also partial to the Australian film, &quot;Wolf Creek.&quot; Scary as hell. Much more frightening than any recent Hollywood horror film. Hollywood tends to have set rules in horror films, which makes them predictable.<br />When it comes to horror, I don&#39;t care if a film is politically incorrect. I don&#39;t care if it&#39;s deeply offensive. All I want it to do is to scare the hell out of me. &quot;Wolf Creek&quot; did the job. Roger Ebert gave it zero stars (no doubt because he was offended), so I guess others don&#39;t agree with me.<br />Actually, I had thought about seeing the new &quot;Road Warrior&quot; film myself. But now I have doubts. I&#39;m sick of blowing money on lousy films at the theater. I had heard good things about &quot;Birdman,&quot; but I wasn&#39;t too impressed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-67138122309405731872015-06-03T21:42:28.099-05:002015-06-03T21:42:28.099-05:00Aww Joe I agree about the remake. I merely couldn...Aww Joe I agree about the remake. I merely couldn&#39;t stand the original.Anomalous Propagationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505431583633117851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-54290564188338818592015-06-03T03:45:08.946-05:002015-06-03T03:45:08.946-05:00Propagation: You can&#39;t agree? -- fine. Obvious...Propagation: You can&#39;t agree? -- fine. Obviously, judging from what I saw on Rotten Tomatoes and from the loot at the box office, most people don&#39;t.<br /><br />I did think the 1981 film &quot;The Road Warrior&quot; was a great film, as good as it gets in this particular genre. It had just the right amount of story and character development to sustain the chase-and-explosion sequences. But I was led to expect that this film would be something comparable. It definitely was not.<br /><br />Anonymous II: Don&#39;t understand what you&#39;re getting at. Nixon was, in hindsight, a bright guy, definitely smarter than Il Doofus or his dad. Also much smarter than Reagan. But he was also, sadly, a boozy right-winger with the morals of pond scum. It&#39;s an American tragedy that this is what he&#39;ll be mainly remembered for. Manifesto Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-17017531930216734432015-06-03T03:16:42.709-05:002015-06-03T03:16:42.709-05:00&quot;The government is full of Jews. Second, most...&quot;The government is full of Jews. Second, most Jews are disloyal....generally speaking, you can&#39;t trust the bastards. They turn on you. Am I wrong or right?&quot;<br />----Richard Nixon, 1971.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-61122253443499666682015-06-02T20:45:22.511-05:002015-06-02T20:45:22.511-05:00Joe -
I just can&#39;t agree with you. I thought ...Joe -<br />I just can&#39;t agree with you. I thought the original MadMax trilogy was second rate at best. I doubt I&#39;ll waste any time at all with any cinema that is derivative of comic books. I&#39;m not being a snob, but comic books are not literature, so no derivative can rise above the original work. I share your disdain for comic book heroes, even heroes in general. They provide unreasonable images with unrealistic values and unattainable goals for mature adults.Anomalous Propagationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505431583633117851noreply@blogger.com